Time and Social Theory

Barbara Adam (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

1994
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-1407-6 (ISBN)

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Time is at the forefront of contemporary scholarly inquiry across the natural sciences and the humanities. Yet the social sciences have remained substantially isolated from time--related concerns.

Time is at the forefront of contemporary scholarly inquiry across the natural sciences and the humanities. Yet the social sciences have remained substantially isolated from time-related concerns. This book argues that time should be a key part of social theory and focuses concern upon issues which have emerged as central to an understanding of today's social world.

Through her analysis of time Barbara Adam shows that our contemporary social theories are firmly embedded in Newtonian science and classical dualistic philosophy. She exposes these classical frameworks of thought as inadequate to the task of conceptualizing our contemporary world of standardized time, computers, nuclear power and global telecommunications.

Barbara Adam is editor of Time and Society.

Introduction: Time is a Fact of Life

1. Time in Social Theory: Destiny, Necessity, Enigma

2. From the Measure of Motion of Entropy

3. Rhythmicity: Source of Life and Form

4. Human Time Studied

5. Industrial Time and Power

6. Time Transcended

7. Time for Social Theory: Points of Departure

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.5.1994
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 228 mm
Gewicht	284 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-1407-8 / 0745614078
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-1407-6 / 9780745614076
Zustand	Neuware